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Mises, Champion of Children

I am always amazed at the massive difference between Keynes and Mises - one of the most important being that of their differing emphases on time. Keynes is the great champion of the Present: "In the long run, we are all dead." Mises is the champion...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Sat, Sep 19 2009

Big Boobs and Healthcare

By Monty Pelerin , posted December 6th, 2009 http://www.economicnoise.com/2009/12/06/big-boobs-and-healthcare/ “The Senate measure is not about the right to obtain preventive care. It’s about the right to make someone else pick up the tab...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Sun, Dec 6 2009

Filed under: healthcare boobs

The Financial Crisis

It seems the financial crises has struck a chord with economists both near and far. The following was one of my comments from The Austrian Economists: I like to begin a lot my classes by explaining that economics is not all about boring GDP, interest...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Wed, Sep 24 2008

Filed under: crisis, financial markets

Aclarando la valoración subjetiva

Por Alexander Peterson. (Publicado el 20 de septiembre de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5625 . En medio de un curso de tercero de derecho que explicaba las ventas y el UCC...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Sep 20 2011

Filed under: Alexander Peterson, valor subjetivo

Hmm: Two independent satellite studies show that ice sheets are melting faster than expected by IPCC, and accelerating

1. See this March 8, 2011 Washington Post article : The vast ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are melting faster than previously thought, and that melting is accelerating, according to a new report that verifies 18 years of melting via two independent...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, May 6 2011

If It's Wrong, It's Wrong

America means something. America is different. It really is. As far as I know, and I don’t know everything – close, but not all – there has never been a situation where a man from a class of people imported as slaves, has risen to be...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Mon, Feb 2 2009

Filed under: America, Liberty, Freedom, Gitmo, Guantanomo, Torture, detention, Due Process

In Defense of Jindal

Last night president Obama gave a formal address - arguably a prelude for the next four years of government spending, intervention and regulation. The Wall Street Journal commented that his vague allusions to industry regulations and bailouts were interpreted...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Wed, Feb 25 2009

Filed under: obama, stimulus, new orleans, jindal

conflicted conscience

Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative is, sadly, just another politician's manifesto, making sweeping statements in support of individual rights in one breath and in the next sacrificing them at the altar of government. He believes...

Posted to the forgotten man. by Nathaniel on Wed, Oct 7 2009

Filed under: revolution, reviews, politicians, property rights, books

Economics in One Lesson校译之11. Who’s “Protected” by Tariffs? (6-1,2,3)

Who’s “Protected” by Tariffs? 第11章关税“保护”了哪些人？ A MERE RECITAL of the economic policies of governments all over the world is calculated to cause any serious student of economics to throw up his hands in despair. What possible...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Sat, Jul 4 2009

La depresión no ha acabado

Por Frank Shostak. (Publicado el 10 de febrero de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4089 . El PIB real aumentó a un ritmo anual del 5,7% en el cuarto trimestre (Q4) después...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Thu, Feb 11 2010

Filed under: crisis, Frank Shostak

Such a big crisis, yet so few words? Scratching my head over sporadic, thin drive-by postings at LvMI on our growing BP/Gulf disaster

Yes, another BP post ! It's a bit puzzling - and disturbing - that, in the midst of an ongoing and epochal pollution event, LvMI authors seem to have so little to say about BP, the federal or state governments that have arrogated to themselves the...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jun 17 2010

A Respone to Peter Kleins Lecture on Entrepeneurship

A Respone to Peter Kleins Lecture on Entrepeneurship by Alex Merced This is a Response to Peter Kleins Lecture on Entrepeneurship In this lecture Peter Klein does a great job discussing different aspects of defining the entrepeneur, so to sum up two of...

Posted to AlexMerced by Alex Merced on Fri, Aug 6 2010

Filed under: Schumpeter, Entrepeneurship, Mises U, Austrian Economics

Would you move 1000 miles for a job?

CNN seems to be a wealth of fallacies lately . This family was devastated when the father lost his job eight years before he was supposed to retire. When offered a job opportunity a thousand miles away, they responded with this... "The Kerls didn’t...

Posted to A Discourse on Current Events by duffmann808 on Tue, Mar 9 2010

Una guía no tan radical

Por Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr. (Publicado el 2 de febrero de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4081 . [ Libertarian Forum , 1970] A Radical's Guide to Economic Reality...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Feb 2 2010

Filed under: crítica de libros, anarquismo, Angus Black, Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Libertarian Forum

Links to pass the time...

Once again it's been a long while between posts. I'm off to Vegas tomorrow morning for this years APEE conference . The ominous dissertation defense is right around the corner, scheduled for April 22. Here are some interesting links to help pass...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Sat, Apr 5 2008

Filed under: family, crime, links